As a long-term fan of your read-more-than-once books, particularly the Warlord Trilogy, I thought I would tell you I got deja vu reading the last chapters in A Crowning Mercy. One of P D James books used the remote, ancient chapel at Bradwell-on-sea on the Dengie Peninsular in Essex, as the violent backdrop for the final chapters. But since your book was first published in the 1980s, you used it first. My job involves writing about property and I have just received details of a similar-size chapel for sale nearby in Steeple. It was built for the Peculiar People, who would appear to be peculiar to Essex. I am not peculiar to Essex, but I live there now. Thank you for all the historical detail you put in your novels. That’s why I have to read them again. I need to find out what happens, then I need to go back and fill in the detail! At least that is my excuse. This is an excellent and cunning device of yours, for which I thank you. It keeps me amused for the hours I spend on the train when I visit my Mum who still lives in London. Many thanks. Barbara Butler